# Ray vs Geekbot

> Geekbot collects the updates. Ray does the work. Their facts from their own pages, checked August 2026, including where they are the better pick.

Source: https://heyray.io/compare/geekbot

## What Geekbot is

Geekbot calls itself the easiest way to run standups, polls and surveys in Slack and Microsoft Teams. It asks your team the questions you configure on the schedule you pick, posts the answers as reports, and keeps the analytics: participation, blockers, sentiment, all of it. Since July 2026 it also publishes an MCP server and a CLI, so the assistant you already run can read your standup data.

Source: https://geekbot.com

## One message, two outcomes

In #eng, Priya says: "Blocked on the billing migration, the Stripe webhook keeps failing in staging."

**Ray**

1. Files it in Linear against the billing project
2. Shows you the approval card before it writes anything
3. Chases the status and posts back when it moves

**Geekbot**

1. Records it as a blocker in tomorrow's report
2. Counts it in participation and blocker analytics
3. Filing the ticket stays a job for a person

## Side by side

| | Ray | Geekbot |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The job | Turns what is said in chat into tracked work, then follows it through | Collects written updates on a schedule and reports them |
| Pricing model | Flat by team size, never per seat, never metered | Per participant per month, standups and polls metered separately |
| Free tier | 25 tasks a month plus a one-time 50-task grant, any team size | Up to 10 users, unlimited standups, 3 months of history |
| Chat platforms | Slack today | Slack and Microsoft Teams |
| Writing to your other tools | A curated set of tools, each write behind an approval card | Reports and analytics in Geekbot, ecosystem integration on Enterprise |
| Standup depth | Scheduled digests you can reschedule by asking | 25+ templates, per-person schedules, out of office, anonymous mode |

## What Ray costs

Free covers 25 tasks a month plus a one-time 50-task starter grant that never expires. Pro is one flat price for your team's size: $49 a month for 1 to 3 people, $99 a month for 4 to 10 people, $199 a month for 11 to 25 people. No seats, and using Ray more never costs more.

## What Geekbot costs

Free for teams of up to ten users, with unlimited standups, polls and surveys and three months of history. Above that, standups are $3 per participant a month, or $2.50 billed annually, and polls and surveys are $1 per respondent, or $0.75 annually. You pay once per person per month rather than per standup. Enterprise is on request and is where their Jira, Google Calendar and Asana ecosystem integration lives.

Source: https://geekbot.com/pricing

## Choose Geekbot if

- Running good asynchronous standups is the job. Geekbot is better at it than Ray and cheaper for it: twelve participants cost about thirty-six dollars a month, twenty-five about seventy-five, against Ray's flat bands.
- Your team is on Microsoft Teams. Geekbot supports it and Ray is Slack-only today.
- You want polls, surveys, anonymous reporting and sentiment analytics as first-class products. Geekbot ships all of it and Ray ships none of it.
- You already run your own AI assistant and want it to read your standup data. Geekbot's MCP server does exactly that, which is a sound bet and a different one from ours.

## Choose Ray if

- The updates were never the problem. The work they describe is: tickets that never get filed, statuses nobody chases, follow-ups that die in a thread.
- You want work to land in Linear, Jira, Notion or HubSpot from the conversation itself, with an approval card before anything is written.
- You would rather pay one flat price for the whole team than per participant as the team grows.

## What Geekbot does not do

Each checked against their own documentation, August 2026.

- Geekbot's writes land inside Geekbot. Its MCP server can create standups and polls and post reports, and its Jira, Calendar and Asana ecosystem integration sits on the Enterprise tier, so filing and updating work in your other tools from a conversation is not what it is for. (https://help.geekbot.com/en/articles/15692639-geekbot-mcp-server)

## Questions people ask

**Is Geekbot cheaper than Ray?**

For standups, yes, at every size we sell. Geekbot is free up to ten users and about three dollars per participant a month above that, so a team of twelve pays roughly thirty-six dollars where Ray's band is ninety-nine. If a standup is what you need, that is the honest answer.

**Is Ray a standup bot?**

Ray posts scheduled digests, which covers part of that job, but it is not what Ray is. Ray reads the channels it is invited to, files the tickets, chases the statuses and does the follow-up work in your other tools.

**Can we run both?**

Yes, and some teams should. If Geekbot's standup format is working, keep it and let Ray handle the work that comes out of it. Nothing about the two conflicts.

**Does Ray work in Microsoft Teams?**

Not today. Ray is Slack-only, with other chat platforms next. If your team is on Teams right now, Geekbot covers you and Ray does not.

## Our rule for this page

Every Geekbot fact here comes from their own published pages, checked August 2026, and we say where they are the better choice. If anything here is wrong, tell us at support@heyray.io and we will fix it.